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The classic metaphor is that you don’t blame the bullied kid for making fun of their bullies

That isn’t what is happening here. What is happening is the bullied kid is bullying people who look like the kid who bullied them. They aren’t targeting the bully. Thus what you are supporting is lashing out at people who aren’t responsible for your mistreatment on the basis of race. There’s a word for it…it will come to me in a minute.

There are power imbalances built into our culture, and so pretending that a joke at the expense of white people could ever do the same amount of harm as one at the expense of a racialized group is frankly ridiculous.

The fact is you can’t say how things impact people who aren’t you. Dismissing this as not being racist is being part of the problem not part of the solution.